29.503, Calls: Spanish, Applied Ling, Lang Acquisition, Ling & Lit, Socioling/Netherlands

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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 18:48:24
From: Juan Alba Duran [ahbx2018 at gmail.com]
Subject: The Humanities in the Age of the Digimodern User

 
Full Title: The Humanities in the Age of the Digimodern User 

Date: 01-Nov-2018 - 02-Nov-2018
Location: Groningen, Netherlands 
Contact Person: Juan Alba Duran
Meeting Email: ahbx2018 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/2018-01-09-cfp-humanities-digimodern-user 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Call Deadline: 01-Apr-2018 

Meeting Description:

The 21st century society is characterised by what Alan Kirby terms
''digimodernism'', in which ephemeral mediatisation, new information
technologies, and the destabilisation of the traditional text play a central
role. With the destabilisation of the traditional text, the role of the
academic as mediator is decentred: when a large part of the population has
permanent access to a wide range of knowledge on the internet, a popular
perception emerges that experts and authorities are now redundant - a notion
that, as Tom Nichols affirms in the The Death of Expertise (2017), is
skilfully utilised within populist rhetoric. During the period in which we
most need specialist skills in critical media consumption, there has been a
rapid and problematic disassociation between the 'digimodern user' and the
academic world, which necessitates an accompanying readjustment of research
and teaching practices in the field of the humanities.

This conference addresses the impact of digimodernism in the Humanities
research and education. It will take place on the 1 and 2 November, 2018 and
brings together international Hispanists to contemplate, in a
multidisciplinary field, methodological innovations focused on the user's
perspective. It is aimed at researchers from the fields of cultural studies,
linguistics, and the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. For more
information, please see the full call for papers.


Call for Papers:

The present conference will focus on two main perspectives:

1) The digital user as the object of study and teaching and 
2) The digital text as a tool of study and teaching.

The conference will take place on the 1 and 2 November, 2018 and brings
together international Hispanists to contemplate, in a multidisciplinary
field, methodological innovations focused on the user's perspective. It is
aimed at researchers from the fields of cultural studies, linguistics, and the
teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.

All interested parties are invited to submit 250-word proposals for:

A. Workshops between 20 and 45 minutes
B. Presentations or round tables of 20 minutes

Any of the following suggested sections and sub-topics can be considered:

1. The digital user as an object of study and teaching: What new research
topics and teaching arise in the fields of cultural studies, linguistics, and
the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language, as a consequence of digital
living? Presentations can focus on:

- Identification and profile of the digital user
- The digimodern user as a student
- Empirical study of the self-identification of the digimodern user
- Global and transnational aspects of the digimodern user
- The effect of new media on the active and passive linguistic competences of
the digimodern user
- The teaching of skills in the critical use of digital texts
- Affective aspects of the aesthetics of blogs, vlogs, wikis, blognovelas,
internet-vocabulary, online multilingualism, international telecollaboration,
etc.
- Cultural representations of digital texts (e.g. The representation of
Twitter, Instagram etc. in movies, novels, political discourse) and perception
of these representations by users
- Cultural narratives about new media (new media as a threat, as a sign of the
future, as devices of control, etc.) and perception of these representations
by users.

2. The digital text as a tool for study and teaching: How does digimodernity
affect research practices in the fields of cultural studies, linguistics, and
the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language? Presentations can focus on:

- The use of blogs, vlogs, etc. for the dissemination of academic content
- The use of wikis to generate research questions from social actors outside
the academic field
- The use of blogs, vlogs, wikis, blognovelas, internet-vocabulary, online
multilingualism, international telecollaboration in the teaching of Spanish as
a foreign language
- The use of digimodern texts for 'blended learning' purposes (Perusall) 
- Reflections on the epistemology of new media (what forms of knowledge
represent and promote new media?)
- Reflections on the effect of the use of new media on the educational process

Please send proposals in Spanish or English to ahbx2018 at gmail.com before April
1 2018.
The selection will be communicated early May.




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